On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:00:08 -0700 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:
We're better off making *no* progress, than making "unsteady progress".
Really. Seriously.
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 3:24:29 PM, Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org wrote:
I'm talking about the given example of a simple memory bug that caused a very subtle breakage of API, which had another trivial fix that should be backported. I'm not sure that's what you were talking about.
Side note: the original impetus for this was our suspend/resume mess. It went on for *YEARS*, and it was absolutely chock-full of exactly this "I fixed the worse problem, and introduced another one".
What you are talking about here isn't what I was talking about above ;-)
-- Steve